 I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the...  The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of Species - Page 136by Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 386 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1860 - 612 pages
...Nature cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they may be useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional...which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her ; and the being is placed under well-suited conditions of life. Man keeps the natives... | |
 | 1860 - 532 pages
...nature cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ — on every shade of constitutional...which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her: and the being placed under well-suited conditions of life. Man keeps the natives... | |
 | 1860 - 444 pages
...nothing for appearances, except IB go far as they may be useful to any being. She can act en ererr internal organ, on' every shade of constitutional...good; nature only for that of the being which she sends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her; and the being ia placed wider well-suited... | |
 | Great Britain - 1860 - 880 pages
...nature cares nothing for appearances, except in BO far as they may be useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of lite. Man selects only for his own good; nature only for that of the being which she sends. Every selected... | |
 | robert scott burn - 1861 - 738 pages
...powerful in its operation; for, while man can act only on external and visible characters, nature can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional...nature only for that of the being which she tends. The main object of Mr Darwin's work is to illustrate and establish this supposed principle of natural... | |
 | 1861 - 824 pages
...nature cares nothing for appearances, except in BO far as they may be useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional...for his own good ; nature only for that of the being whom she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her ; and the being is placed under... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...nature cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they may be useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional...machinery of life. Man selects only for his own good ; Kature only for that of the being which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1864 - 472 pages
...cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they may be useful , to _aay Jjeing. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional...which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her ; and the being is placed under well-suited conditions of life. Man keeps the natives... | |
 | John Watts - Free thought - 1865 - 206 pages
...nature cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they may be useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional...life. Man selects only for his own good ; nature only lor that of the being which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her; and the... | |
 | Science - 1866 - 736 pages
...of modification ; and yet, as we have been told, " Nature," or " Natural Selection," can itself act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the seed, and on the egg ; in fact, she, or it, can commence the work of variation as well as complete... | |
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